Astronomy and culture in Nigeria

JO Urama - … Cultural Astronomy: Current Archaeoastronomy and …, 2008 - Springer
… views and astronomy principles. As … culture and traditions of the different ethnic groups of
Nigeria with a view to re-interpreting this body of knowledge in the light of modern astronomy

The African cultural astronomy project

JO Urama, JC Holbrook - Proceedings of the international …, 2009 - cambridge.org
astronomy of the Igbos. The Igbospeaking people of southeastern Nigeria is the third largest
ethnic group in Nigeria. … extent to which such astronomy knowledge astronomy is built into …

[PDF][PDF] ENDOGENOUS ASTRONOMY OF PARTS OF NIGERIA

JO Urama, EN Urama, AOE Animalu - African Journal of Physics …, 2009 - researchgate.net
… the culture and tradition of some of the ethnic groups in Nigeria and the need to bridge the
gap between cultural astronomy in Africa and modern astronomy by … in modern astronomy and …

Landscapes Of Power: A Historical Archaeology And Cultural Astronomy Of Ijebu-Yoruba Palatial Urbanscapes, AD 1000-1900

O Lasisi - 2023 - scholarworks.wm.edu
… power among the Yorùbá, southwestern Nigeria, using the Ìjébú cultural … , Ritual, and
Astronomy as interconnected root cultural … architecture, ritual, and astronomy. The allegory of …

Nigeria's first radio astronomer

S Bowler - Astronomy & Geophysics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
astronomy. He did so at the University of Cambridge in 1965, at the time when radio astronomy
… He went on to play a major part in establishing astronomy in Nigeria as both a discipline …

The Use of Ethnographic Methods in Cultural Astronomy Research

B Chukwuezi - … Cultural Astronomy: Current Archaeoastronomy and …, 2008 - Springer
… of ARI in Owerrri and Kano states of Nigeria, as mentioned earlier. This form of method
could be used to gather information on cultural astronomy. For example, one can present a …

[PDF][PDF] African Astronomy

JC Holbrook - National Society of Black Physicists Annual Day of …, 1998 - apps.dtic.mil
… A brief overview of the types of astronomy and the locations in … Thus, in addition to describing
established sites of astronomy, … are in Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, and Madagascar. Most but …

[PDF][PDF] THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ASTRONOMY IN THE ANCIENT ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS OF NORTHERN NIGERIA AND THEIR PRESERVATION

S Bala - academia.edu
… the subject of astronomy scattered all over northern Nigeria in … The subject of astronomy
was also covered by the Sokoto … fields of Islamic sciences including astronomy. In recent times, …

[PDF][PDF] Cultural and religious barriers to learning in basic astronomy: A South African study

AK Cameron - 2007 - wiredspace.wits.ac.za
… and foundation students who were taking a course in basic astronomy ('The Earth in Space'),
it … International research in astronomy education has indicated that irrespective of culture, …

[PDF][PDF] Decolonizing Modern Astronomy Education in Nigerian Universities through African Indigenous Knowledge

FC Odo - Publication of the Astronomical Society of Nigeria  …, 2021 - astrosocietyng.org
… in Nigeria, indigenous astronomy reminds us that observation of the skies is deeply rooted in
our culture. … An important way to decolonize astronomy education in Nigeria and the rest of …